Why the fuck does this dude care so much about one social media platform being available here? Is he perving on dancing teenagers?
tiktok is used by genz and alpha alot, it helps that they would be the next generation of a dying GOP voters which are primarily boomers, Xers, and some milleneals.
Because it’s been an incredibly successful propoganda vector for the youth vote.
Huh. Is that good or bad?
I don’t pay attention to TikTok. I’m not on there.
Bad, it’s why so many of them are magattes.
Very obviously bad. You want educated voters, not propagandized ones.
I believe it is part of a strategy known as indoctrination
TikTok’s valuation remains contested, with estimates varying from US$20 billion ($31.8 billion) to more than US$300 billion, depending on whether its algorithm is factored in.
The algorithm increases the price by more than $280 billion. And what kind of algorithm? One that changes its high based on how you interact with it, to always try and get your dopamine flowing to keep you interacting longer. If it were a real substance, it would be the most addictive drug to ever exist.
You could argue if xai paid xitter 45 billion in their latest
money laundering operationacquisition, then TikTok is worth at least ten xittersWtf, do proprietary algorithms actually cost this much?
I mean, have you seen how effective Tik Toks one is?
Cool, another app I won’t download and will look sideways at whoever does.
If I see its userbase consists of gen z and younger I will be very disappointed.
I’m sorry but you’re 100% going to be disappointed
If I find out Lemmy.world has a mouse favicon I’m going to be disappointed
You’re right, I should set my expectations now.
He is really so dumb
Surely US investors won’t harvest data and/or enshittify the product!
Oh thank God, I thought the economy was about to collapse or something.
Don’t fumble this loops. Now is the moment.
Loops…kind of sucks. I get the point of it, but I tried using it like 15 minutes a day for a couple weeks to get used to it, but the features are lacking and the content is…well it’s filled with people who would abandon tiktok and other apps, so, it’s kind of boring.
Not in a ‘there’s no brainrot’ way, in a ‘this is the third video in a row of just random AI slop and then it’s just some dude filming a tree for 20 seconds’.
Bootstrapping is definitely going to be an issue. There was news they are supposed to have federation working and released tomorrow. Right now there’s not even a client in the play store so I haven’t bothered with it.
Honestly, I don’t who would be the better owner of Tik Tok at this point…
lmao
